The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 145

After watching them for a little, however, he began to get over his alarm, and finally slid down the tree again, resolved to get his gun and play some tricks with them.

Who acts: Rasmus · What happens: watch, begin, get, slide down, resolve, play · To what, where: Giants, alarm, tree, gun, tricks

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 watching	mark
2	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 began	advcl
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watching	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 little	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 watching	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 watching	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	11 began	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 alarm	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 alarm	nmod:poss
16	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slid	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 slid	cc
19	finally	finally	ADV	_	20 slid	advmod
20	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	advcl
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 slid	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slid	obj
24	again	again	ADV	_	20 slid	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 resolved	punct
26	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 slid	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 resolved	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 gun	nmod:poss
30	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 play	cc
32	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 get	conj
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 tricks	det
34	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 play	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 play	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund	Rasmus not said here	Giants = giant			for a little	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Location for little=Theme
2	begin	past	Rasmus				however property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive	Rasmus not said here		Rasmus's alarm			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over alarm=Destination
4	slide down	past	Rasmus not said here	the tree		again	finally property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Agent
5	resolve	participle	Rasmus not said here					tree rules
6	get	to-infinitive	Rasmus not said here	Rasmus's gun				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gun=Stimulus
7	play	infinitive	Rasmus not said here	some tricks			with Giants = giant	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with they=Co-Agent
8	alarm		Rasmus					nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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